Fostech Outdoors had a prototype bullpup bump firing stock for the AK platform on display at Media Day. Its design was striking, to say the least, and most people will either love or hate it. Personally I loved the look. When the trigger is pulled the AK moves backwards [Read More…]
The Caracal pistol pictured above KABOOMed a few months ago in Pakistan. Not normally seen in the catastrophic failure of pistols is a slide splitting in two. It is not uncommon for a cheap zinc-alloy, aka “pot metal”, slides on budget pistols to crack [Read More…]
The Hoppe’s No. 9 scent is one of my favorite, right up there with the smell of steak on the grill and the smell of new leather, but the formula is old, very old, and there is no shortage of modern bore cleaning solutions on the market. Hoppe’s [Read More…]
When I teach any firearms class I always address manual safeties during the preliminary brief. I always emphasize, “Use the safety, but don’t rely on it! It can and will fail!” Gunsmiths make a living fixing broken mechanical devices, and the safety on [Read More…]
A few years back, Mossberg worked with Clint Smith to introduce a limited edition Thunder Ranch version of the model 500 shotgun. For 2013, Mossberg is rolling out two new Thunder Ranch guns plus a update to the original model 500. The first new Thunder Ranch gun is a [Read More…]
Canadian ammunition manufacturer SNC Technologies, a General Dynamics subsidiary, are making an interesting .50 BMG (12.7x99mm) training ammunition called the SNC 12.7mm SRTA (Short Range Training Ammunition). The round is fully compatible with standard military [Read More…]
Mounting cameras, like the GoPro, on firearms may seem like a recent trend but it is not. Back in in at least the 1930s inventors were experimenting with small film cameras attached to pistols. The photo above, dated 1938, is in the National Archive of the [Read More…]
SIG Sauer introduced the new M400 Predator at the recent SHOT Show in Las Vegas. The M400 Predator is a AR-style rifle chambered in 5.56 NATO and set up for hunters. The rifle has a match-grade heavy barrel with fluting to reduce the overall weight. The barrel has a [Read More…]
Walther demonstrated three new handguns at SHOT this year. The improved PPQ M2, the PPX, and the PPK/S .22LR. The PPK/S 22 will be offered in black or stainless [shown above]. This firearm is simply a .22LR version of the well-known PPK/S .380 Auto – sharing the [Read More…]
Winchester Ammunition introduced two new loads for the .338 Lapua cartridge this year. One is a competition cartridge, while the second is designed for large game hunting. The first load uses a 250 grain boattail hollowpoint (BTHP) for a high degree of accuracy in [Read More…]
Gun culture has come under pressure these last few years in Silicon Valley. Gun culture used to thrive within the geek/hacker community with open source hero Eric S. Raymond organizing Geeks With Guns events around the country. Cooperate gun clubs used to popular in [Read More…]
Australian Outback Ammunition has just announced that they will be selling .223 and .308 ammunition here in the U.S.A starting this month. They have developed a few different loadings, but their big claim is a feature they call BTI, or Ballistic Temperature [Read More…]
After my post on UK-legal blackpowder pistol conversions Dave emailed us with more information about UK-legal pistols. Technically speaking, pistols are apparently legal in the UK as long as they have a barrel longer than 12″ and a total length longer than [Read More…]
A reader emailed us asking to help identify the grenade launcher, at least I think it is a grenade launcher, on the hip of the commando in the foreground of the above photo. The photo shows two French special force soldiers. I don’t know the context of the photo [Read More…]
Gun blogger (and TFB guest blogger) Olav has updated his Gun Spot iPhone app. The new Gun Spot 2.0 features … Updated the FFL data to include January 2013… ✓ FFL Holders Records updated: 12,700+ ✓ FFL Holders Records added: 6,700+ ✓ FFL Holders [Read More…]
Smith Optics Elite have put together a nifty guns and girls calendar in the vintage pin-up / bomber art style. All proceeds go to Special Operations Warrior Foundation. It is on sale for $12.
One of the most interesting firearms to come out of World War II is the Fallschirmjaegergewehr 42 – the FG-42. There are so few of them still in existence that they often don’t get the attention they should, but that will all change now. SMG Guns of Decatur, [Read More…]
The United Wa State Army has acquired a number of M99 12.7mm Anti-Material Rifles from China, reports China Defense Blog. These semi-automatic rifles are either chambered in 12.7x108mm Russian or in .50 BMG. The United Wa State Army is a an [Read More…]
Beretta just announced that they have opened a new Beretta Flagship Store in Moscow. I don’t know what gun shops in Europe and Russia generally look like, but I could get used to shopping in a gun store that had marble floors and chandeliers! The store is [Read More…]
Amazon has begun automatically notifying some Amazon vendors that if they do not remove certain gun-related products from their Amazon listings they will be banned from selling on Amazon.com. Below is the text of an email sent to a gun accessories maker. I have [Read More…]
The above photo was included in the article Michael wrote about the weapons in use by the French Foreign Legion. Readers commented that the EOTech sight mounted on top of the FELIN scope would have been very hard to use effectively in combat. A [Read More…]
Ronaldo Olive dug up another interesting story for us. Back int he late 1980s, Argentine weapon manufacturer Fábrica Militar de Armas Porátiles Domingo Matheu decided to create a FN FAL chambered in 5.56mm. They strangely enough decided to adapt the 5.56mm Steyr [Read More…]
American Tactical Import’s Cavalry Shotgun will go on sale later this year with a MSRP of $489.99. Unusually for a budget double barrel shotgun, which are generally polymer stocked and blued all over, these actually look good. They feature a nice oiled Turkish [Read More…]
GlockWorx, also known as ZEV Technologies, manufactures aftermarket parts for Glock pistols including triggers, magwells, sights, guide rods, springs and slides. They also do gunsmithing on Glock pistols and can modify your Glock’s frame, slide and finish. They [Read More…]
If the pink rifle phenomenon taught us anything, its that there is a large market for guns that are not black in color. Colt Defense, the original maker of the Black Rifle itself, is now offer the AR-15 in a range of colorful patterns. From the press release … [Read More…]
If you want a high capacity, semi-automatic tactical shotgun feeding from a box magazine, the Saiga-12 is pretty much your only option. Ho hum. But wait, a challenger appears! Intrepid Tactical Solutions is releasing the AR-12, a 12-gauge shotgun upper that fits on [Read More…]
Break Free announced the introduction of the Model LP-PS needle-style “Precision Shooter” applicator for its CLP gun lubricant. The new applicator allows a gun owner to apply a precise amount of the CLP firearms lube to a specific, hard to reach locations. [Read More…]
The Caracal pistol design began in 2003 with European arms designers, headed by Wilhelm Bubits, collaborating on the project for the UAE. The end result is the 9mm Caracal F which entered UAE service in 2007 while boasting fewer parts than Glock models. At SHOT 2013 the [Read More…]
Back in November we covered the BattleMug and TFB readers fell in love with the concept, but some balked at the price. Well there’s now a solution, the new BattleMug (P) Edition is a 26 oz. polymer mug that has three picatinny rails so you can be prepared for [Read More…]
Winchester has issued a product recall on its 5.56mm M855 62 Grain PENE centerfire rifle ammunition … Olin Corporation, through its Winchester Division, is recalling one (1) lot of its 5.56mm M855 62 Grain PENE centerfire rifle ammunition. Symbol Number: ZGQ3308 [Read More…]
Your Privacy Choices